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witmmmw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES GREGORY, OF MOSELEY, NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

HAlR-CURLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 37 1,2496, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed August 2, 1887. Serial No. 245,947.

' 1"0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES GREGORY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Moseley, near Birmingham, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair- Curlers,(for which I obtained a patent in England on November 21,1885, bearing No.14,246,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hair curler; and it consists in a certain novel device designed to take the place of the ordinary curl-papers, which are very unhandy and very conspicuous while being worn.

The object of the invention is to provide a device around which the hair may be wound, which will hold the same firml in place, which will fit the shape of the head, and therefore will not be uncomfortable to the wearer, and which will be invisible.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the manner of using the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the retainingspring for the hair, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the body of the device,which comprises a long thin strip of lead or other pliable material entirely covered with silk or a similar durable covering. The ends of the strip are provided with small caps B B, to prevent the said covering from fraying at the ends. About the center of the strip is disposed the spring 0, provided at one end with ears or points to be bent around the body of the curler, to hold the spring in place.

The tips or caps and the spring are designed to be plated with some material which will not rust.

To use the device, the end of the bunch of hair to be curled is placed under the spring, between the same and the body of the curler, and the device is turned over and over until the hair is entirely wound thereon, when the (No model.) Patented in England November 21, 1885, No. 14,246.

ends of the body are turned under to conceal the tips,and also to prevent the hair from be coming unrolled. The body of the curler being pliable, it will accommodate itself to the shape of the head, and therefore there will be no uneasiness in wearing it either in the day-time or at night, it being a well-known fact that the ordinary paper-curlers cause the wearer considerable uneasiness while lying down. The body of the curler is covered, as before mentioned, with silk or other similar material, and the color of the said covering is adapted to be matched to the color of the hair of the intended wearer, so that when the hair is wrapped around the device the latter can not be seen. Therefore the metal spring and tips are concealed by the hair, and the body of the curler which must be uncovered is of the same color as the hair, and consequently the hair may, when these curlers are used, be worn curled in public, whereas when the paper-curlers are used they are too conspicuous, and therefore cannot be worn in public.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. The haircurler comprising the pliable body A and the spring O,securedthereomand adapted to hold the end of the hair, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The hair-curler comprising the body A, of pliable metal, and having the silk or other suitable cover thereon adapted to be matched in color to the hair of the wearer, the tips B B on the ends of the body, and the spring 0, secured at one end to the body by means of cars or points, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AMES GREGORY.

Witnesses:

THOMAS LAFFIN, A. M. WARDEN. 

